3+ day, 9+ hour ago   (302+ words) Hackaday This is going to be a very personal question, because when you’re talking cloud vs local anything, it comes down to this: how much are you willing to pay for independence? The local option might save you long…...

6+ mon, 1+ week ago   (179+ words) From the site, it’s not clear where this documentation and software can be found, and the chess robot appears to be fully sold out on the Kickstarter page. In addition to this, a promised companion app seems to have gone…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (326+ words) Hackaday In the business world, a moat is a quality of a business that makes it difficult for competitors to take that company’s profits. With how hard it is to train models for large language models (LLMs) and generative AI,…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (259+ words) Hackaday Many of us have noted a tremendous price increase in many computer components for some mysterious reason. Whatever this cause is will be debated among the various modern philosophers and Diogeneses, but regardless of cause we all still have…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (40+ words) If there's one thing that's guaranteed in the tech world it's that nothing is guaranteed. From AOL, Netscape, Yahoo, and MySpace, every tech empire seems to eventually fall to ruin. One method to reli......

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (208+ words) Quick Share Implemented On A Kindle Hackaday Quick Share is a useful tool for flipping files between Android smart phones in a fuss-free wireless manner. [unrealJune] has now implemented the feature on Kindle devices. You’ll need a jailbroken Kindle to…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (34+ words) In part one of what is intended to be a series on developing an STM32-based oscilloscope, [BTTLab] demonstrates a how to use the built-in ADC of an STM32F207 MCU to develop a straightforward single-ch......

5+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1849+ words) For some reason, Markdown has not just become the format of choice for giving READMEs in GitHub repositories some flair, but also for writing entire websites and documents. In a recent rant, [Burak Güngör] covers all the ways in which…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (36+ words) These days open source is everywhere, and frankly, we couldn't be happier about it. But even with as prevalent as open software and hardware has become, we still occasionally hear about a project that......

4+ week, 14+ hour ago   (42+ words) It's a sci-fi trope that you can 'scan for life signs' and detect if there are humans -- or suspiciously human-shaped aliens -- present, but in real life it's harder than that. [The Masked Bear]'s wif......